PREFACE, vii 



convey a pretty good idea of his genera, 

 though they cannot be pronounced fuperior 

 to thofe of that author. I fhould have been 

 glad to have given fome account of the 

 Syftem of Poda, a Jefuit, a work much 

 praifed by Scopoli, which alone is fuffi- 

 cient to convey an advantageous idea of it, 

 but have not been able to procure it, nor 

 learn how or in what he differs from 

 Linnaus. 



The Reader will find, that I have not 

 only explained the circumftances from 

 which the above-mentioned Authors have 

 taken their claffical and generical distinc- 

 tions, but likewife the more minute ones, 

 which induced them to form their 

 genera into JeSiions or families. By thefe 

 means the beginner, inftead of contenting 

 himfelf with attending to a few of the 

 more ftriking characters, will be led to 

 the confideration of every part of the in- 

 fect ; and as the beft method of becoming 

 acquainted with thofe characters is the 

 comparing of infects known to belong to a 

 certain particular genus, with the defcrip- 

 tion given of that genus, I have taken care 



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